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Example sentences for: rightful

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In fact, the only rightful claimant to the crown was the elderly Prince Henry.
Italy had to wait until after World War II to regain its rightful status as a primary fashion source.
Defying the two-year French occupation, philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte exhorted the German people to assume their rightful destiny as a nation.
The question of whether proper names of people and places have a rightful place in a dictionary is probably an obsolete one: their presence was formerly justified on the grounds that as “words” they are far more frequent than many of the “legitimate” words, like elytron, greave, or mithridatism . That might be justifiable if there were accurate frequency information available.
Nixon's spokeswoman, Mary Still, said the emergency order "was needed to keep the money in safekeeping, so it could be distributed to its rightful owners."